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TechNet Magazine – February 2013

The February 2013 edition of the TechNet Magazine is now available for online reading.

• Editor’s Note: Death, taxes and upgrades

Featured Articles:

• IT Management: IT and the consumer
  By Romi Mahajan
  The needs of the consumer and the capabilities of IT are more closely aligned than you might think.
• Lync Server 2013: Enterprise voice speaks up
  By Alan Maddison
  The Enterprise Voice functionality of Lync Server 2013 has a number of enhancements from both the administrative and user perspective.
• Active Directory: Disconnect for better data
  By James Turner
  Using a disconnected recordset and its associated utilities can help you maintain query performance.
• IT Management: Resolutions for business and IT
  By Tijl Vuyk
  Enterprise technology in 2013 will help businesses of all sizes achieve levels of automation and efficiency previously only found in larger organizations.
• SharePoint 2013: Add power to Office apps
  By V. Gnanasekaran
  Using two new development models, you can automate integrated processes between SharePoint and your Office applications.
• Exchange Server 2013: Archive with elegance
  By Brien M. Posey
  You can set up archive mailboxes for your Exchange users to get around storage limits and retention policies.
• IIS 8: Better certificate management
  By Jason Helmick
  The IIS 8 central certificate store can simplify the process of using multiple certificates on multiple servers.
• Windows PowerShell: Create Hyper-V virtual machines
  By Neil Tucker
  You can use Hyper-V and Windows PowerShell 3.0 to easily create, configure and manage your virtual machines.

Columns:

• Toolbox: New products for IT professionals
  By Greg Steen
  This month’s troika of products lets you beef up your firewall security, visualize SQL task automation and test HTTP services.
• Windows Confidential: Signs your project is doomed
  By Raymond Chen
  When your own upper management can’t even accurately describe your project, you know you’re doomed.
• Utility Spotlight: Scan your PCs for malware
  By Lance Whitney
  The Microsoft Safety Scanner can detect and remove malware when your standard antivirus software doesn’t do the job.
• Windows PowerShell: The Windows PowerShell Workflow environment
  By Don Jones
  Each month this year, Don Jones will present an installment in a 12-part tutorial on Windows PowerShell Workflow. We encourage you to read through the series in order, beginning with the January 2013 column.
• Geek of All Trades: Complete automation for service requests
  By Greg Shields
  System Center Service Manager 2012 can handle automating the process of managing service requests.